Careening into dystopia one questionably clean Uber at a time
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I'm a big fan of sama. It's been said he's a snake. I hope he is. And he will do things you will hate and be successful doing it. And in doing so, will teach you a priceless lesson. DGAF about other people. Be yourself, look out for yourself and fucking bring it and step on the stage, as you are.
You don't have to be a perfect and excruciatingly boring paragon of virtue before you become a public figure. How wonderful!! It's ok to be a character. As long as it's your character.
I check with VSCode regularly because obviously an editor that is used by that many developers is worth keeping tabs on (pun n.i.).
I spend some time with it and then go back to Emacs because I can’t justify the trade-off, giving up the raw power and performance for just being more in sync with my team or something.
I’ll readily admit some of the extensions are very nice, like stuff for Kubernetes and so on, and they work well out of box. On the flip side, the customization story is not so great.
With Emacs, I usually spend a bit of time with a new package learning how it works and customizing it to my liking and then it typically becomes more powerful and integrated in my workflow than the VSCode equivalent. Plus the LoC count of a package is usually far far less than of an VSCode extension and I can audit it much faster.
Actually it feels somewhat unfair, how hard it is to die, nowadays. You literally have to commit a violent act towards your body to do it.
I'd love to just sort of blamelessly die by exposure or something. No fault of mine and no fucking life on Earth, thank you very much.
(sorry i know this is HN and we don't do that here)
I followed the trial coverage at the time, on Wired. It was a fucking nail biter and by the end it was clear he'd done it and I was just like, fuck, Hans, why did you do it??